[Hiring] Applications Developer Engineer III @Nike

Role Description

Within Reliability Engineering, our goal is to deliver technical solutions to complex production issues by reducing incident and problem toil, improving detection and recovery of critical events through strong observability, and driving continuous operational improvement. This includes advancing Chaos Engineering practices to validate system resilience, and strengthening high-availability and disaster-recovery (HADR) capabilities across the services we support.

The following are a High Availability Engineer’s responsibilities for this role but are not limited to:

• Design and build solutions to provide capabilities for chaos engineering exercises to expose weaknesses in Nike production systems, uncover any gaps in monitoring and observability, and put in place solutions to lower the effects of any failures on consumers.
• Partner with infrastructure and application engineering teams to ensure solutions meet high availability/disaster recovery requirements, including gap identification, assessment, and remediation.
• Assess current disaster recovery strategy, impacts, and risks including business, legal, and IT perspectives.
• Propose various application design patterns and develop disaster recovery scenarios/resilience requirements.
• Act as a subject matter expert to system owners on industry standards and best practices for disaster recovery.
• Lead technical recovery efforts in the event of a site outage.

Qualifications

• Ability to lead assessments of applications and infrastructure components to identify gaps related to high availability/disaster recovery.
• 7+ years of software development experience.
• 3 - 5 years’ experience in building cloud-based enterprise systems, ideally on AWS.
• Proficient in Java 11 and newer.
• Proficient with JavaScript on frontend (React, Angular, etc.) and backend (Node.js) components.
• Demonstrable knowledge of Linux operating system internals, TCP/IP, filesystems, disk/storage technologies.
• Basic understanding of DNS, Networking, Virtualization.
• Experience with Docker and/or serverless patterns.
• Expertise in designing and building scalable Micro Services.
• Expertise in web and web-app patterns.
• Expertise in NoSQL datastore systems to build highly scalable solutions.
• Experience with expertise in other modern enterprise languages (functional or other – Python, Golang, etc.).
• Experience with securing Restful APIs and Apps using OAuth and OpenID Connect and JWT.
• Good understanding of async/non-blocking Restful APIs approaches and frameworks.
• Experience within messaging (pub-sub) patterns.
• Demonstrated negotiation and influencing skills.
• Basic understanding of most of the following: ServiceNow, Jira, Jenkins, GitHub, Splunk, Grafana or equivalent Application Performance Monitoring Tool.

Requirements

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or a related field; MBA a plus.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant work experience.